Growing Your Business

In this podcast we talk to founders of the Snaffling Pig company Nick Coleman and Andy Allen, along with Dragons’ Den investor Nick Jenkins. Recently, Nick and Andy pitched their pork scratching company to the investors on Dragons’ Den hoping to gain an investment in their business. They succeeded, walking away with a £70,000 investment from online innovator, Nick Jenkins. In this podcast, we find out about their experience in the den and retrieve some inspiring advice for other entrepreneurs and startups.

Sally Gunnell is a British former track and field athlete. In 1986, she won the Commonwealth Games gold medal in the 100m hurdles. Her continuous efforts allowed to her go on to win Olympic gold in 1992 for the 400m hurdles and she currently stands as the only female British athlete to have won Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles. A year after her Olympic triumph, she was made an MBE in 1993, was further made an OBE in 1998 and in 2011 she was made Deputy Lieutenant of West Sussex. Until 2006, Sally also worked as a television presenter primarily for the BBC. A recent report from Xero found that a third of successful entrepreneurs have turned to a mentor or support group for advice about their company, compared to just 14% of respondents who ran businesses that had to close. We talk to Sally, who has teamed up with Xero for Rio 2016 to find out what she think the similarities and differences are between business are, and see what advice she would give to someone just starting out.